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Gali Janardhan Reddy was arrested by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation, which seized a hoard of gold and cash in raids on his homes Karnataka Photo News

Robin PagnamentaMumbai

Published at 7:08PM, October 28 2011

The former minister for tourism in the southern Indian state of Karnataka is
set to face charges in a multibillion-dollar illegal mining scandal that has
forced the shutdown of about a quarter of the country’s iron ore output.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Gali Janardhan Reddy, 44,
last month and seized 30kg of gold and 45 million rupees (£574,000) in cash
in raids on his homes in Bellary and Bangalore.

Mr V. V. Lakshminarayana, joint director of the CBI, India’s equivalent of
America’s FBI, said formal charges against Mr Reddy, who also owns
Obulapuram Mining, would be filed “very